There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy and the number of processes to obtain the necessities of life. In the past few decades however, that long process of simplifying and bundling economic offerings has been reversed. Increasingly, the trend has moved back toward time-consuming foraging behavior.
~ Barry Schwartz
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If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I’d opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
~ Walter Kirn
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Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
~ Che Guevara
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In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
~ John Lanchester
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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus
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